Two Stocks To Profit From the Shale-Oil Boom

Thanks to the fracking phenomenon and sliding oil prices, Tesoro and HollyFrontier are cash gushers.

Shares of U.S. oil refiners have lived up to their reputation for volatility this year, but the worst may be over.

In early April, we suggested investors take profits in Marathon Petroleum (ticker: MPC) and Tesoro (TSO), because changing dynamics in the oil market were putting pressure on margins. Marathon shares, which fell 25% to their year-to-date low in October, subsequently rallied and are now down about 5% since our story, and Tesoro, after falling 22%, has recovered its losses and is up nearly 4%. We'd step away...